Have A Seat With Chris Hansen ft. Jesselyn Cook, Megan Hood, Elizabeth Faaborg re: Dahvie Vanity

good evening and welcome to have a seat with Chris Hanson tonight again from New York City as we continue our investigation into Donnie vanity he Sue's Torres of the group of blood on the dance floor and allegations that he sexually assaulted and groomed dozens if not hundreds of young women or about a 10-year period tonight we have with us Megan hood and Elizabeth Faber and who are survivors of Diaby vanity and they'll tell us a very gripping story about their interaction with him and we also have jessalyn cook who's a reporter with The Huffington Post who along with her reporting partner Sebastian Murdoch really broke ground on this story several months up to a year ago and provided a bit of a roadmap for the rest of us who are looking into it now so it'll be interesting to get her perspective on all this and her input and I want to jump right in with Megan hood who joins us tonight Megan thanks for being with us how are you I'm doing well how are you thanks for being on and thanks for having the courage to tell your story I appreciate it these things are not easy as you know and you've tried to tell it once before and got so much heat on social media that you sort of backed off a little bit let's start at the beginning how did you first become aware of Diaby vanity and blood on the dance floor honestly it was back in the myspace days I definitely discovered him through MySpace and the first time I met him was McAfee at the tour I believe this was 2010 and I loved that band with my entire heart for whatever reason but so yeah just MySpace social media and stuff like that and so did you reach out to him did he see you were following him and reach out to you or how did that all work in the very beginning I will actually didn't formally meet him until probably a little bit after that I want to say it was the next tour all the rage tour but he had recognized me just from being in the crowd and you saw him after the concert what at the merch table in that area yes and we got a picture together that night and what was the conversation with of that night how old were you at the time I was 11 years old 11 years old 11 years old you're the blood on the dance floor concert who are you with who took you to this concert so I wasn't actually with my parents I had some older friends who accompanied me to that concert along with my sister and my parents trusted them she would take good care of me they did in what was the interaction that night you you just spoke with him it was in a just a typical fan performer type thing or what happened yeah I was very brief it was just nice to meet you and yet was it was a big event in the life of an 11 year old fan of that particular band at that performance yeah exactly how did you feel when you left his company that night starstruck I mean ecstatic I was so happy I finally got to meet him in person after loving his music for so long and what happened after that how long until you heard from him or saw him again until the next concert there would be you know comments online here and there just from me reaching out to him elegant like a good job on this song or you know just nothing really serious until a little bit later on at what point did this turn a corner and he started to pursue you romantically okay so this was 2014 because I I was 15 or 16 years old and I had lost a significant amount of weight and so I basically was you know turning into a woman I was not a woman I was still a girl obviously and I went to one of his shows I never missed one and I woke up that next day to a message from him on Facebook asking me what I was doing that day I looked really good at the concert and he wants to hang out with me because he had a day off in Denver and that's where you were living at the time and that's what the concert was in cholera yes so you're 15 16 years old and this rock star who's a hero to you musically con takes you personally and says you want to hang out you must have been blown away by this in a way absolutely yeah I did not know what to think of it and you know silly me I thought he just wanted to pursue a friendship which was something that I wanted you know greatly well why wouldn't you a teenager you've got this famous person and somebody who hold that esteem it seems like a cool thing yeah and he had been in my life for about five years or four years so and I had filled lots of friendships around that band and they were a big part of my life and so I was very happy very excited did you feel a sense of community with the other fans people at the time for instance we're gonna talk to Elizabeth in just a just a minute here but you knew Elizabeth from that circle of people at some point right yes she was very very close with me we've been close for about 10 years now all right so you meet Dottie where do you go what do you do what happens that day uh he invited me to go see a movie with him and we went to go see x-men and I didn't drive I didn't you know I was a child and so my aunt actually took me downtown to go see this movie with him and he was with his his producer I think at the bar at the time and we had we'd set a time to go meet up and I went to our meeting place at that time and he was at the bar was his producer didn't tell me where he was and so I sat there and it was raining outside I sat alone downtown in the rain waiting for him for over an hour before he finally got me very dangerous like you know and we went to movies that night and he was asking me all these weird questions he's being very vague and like cryptic telling me that he's gonna miss me so much because he's not going to see me for you know in a definite period of time and we needed to end that night on a good note so he said he wanted to end that night on a good note did you have any inkling as to what he meant no as a 15 6 year old girl no and mind you I was completely innocent I never had any romantic experiences in my entire life all you know is you're at a movie with Davi vanity and I thought this was supposed to be a friendly thing and I had no idea what he was meaning by that and he ended up kissing me that night during the movie I mean I swear I probably did not watch a single minute that that movie because he was just all over me what was going through your mind as he was physically getting trying to get with you I was really taken back obviously but also I wasn't stopping it because I was you know I loved the man not like in a romantic way but I just held him very high and so I didn't I didn't stop it and I was actually very excited after he kissed me that night and Oh mind you this was my first kiss ever I wasted my first kiss was with Donny vanity yes how did the night wrap up I went home and my aunt had picked me up and take me home you actually talked to my aunt that night and my aunt was very very rude she knew what I didn't obviously she's like there's no business you know with a thirty thirty year old man and a 15 year old girl going to the movies there's no reason for this but fast-forward but and I was home and he called me later on that night because even though we had just hung out he he wanted to see me again after that he told me that we had unfinished business and I lived with my parents obviously and they're very strict so I told him no I said everywhere is closed it was past midnight I think it was about two o'clock in the morning when this conversation was taking place and he was like let's go to a Denny's or you know some 24-hour place where we can hang out and I just kept telling him known come on let me just see how far this hotel is from here so he got my address and did he trick you into getting the address no I give it to him just because I to see how far he was from me if it would take all night for him to get me back home safely at work you know get me out about Hawkins two o'clock in the morning you're at home you're your night is finished and he's trying to get you back out without your parents knowing I had already done my nightly routine I was in my pajamas in bed and so I live in the basement my signal is pretty bad on my cell phone and he kept telling me that I was breaking up so I had to go outside and to my surprise he was outside of my house when I went outside wait he was he was already there he never told you this on the phone that he was coming he tricked you essentially into coming outside and he's there and is he in a car is he in the tour van but the bus what what's he driving he wasn't aware of that so he's in the van so this big man he ditches his bandmates and he drives the big van to your house and do you go in it or what happens then yeah so I was just in shock I didn't know what his plans were I we didn't have a set plan I didn't know why he wanted to hang out because I lived in a you know it's very small town away from the city there's nowhere to do anything around here and he said let's just hang out in the van I was like okay you know in my pajamas no makeup on nothing because I wanted to go to bed and he pulled the same thing that he did at the movie they're pretty much just telling me that we he's gonna miss me so much and asking me if I'm gonna miss him and we need to end this on a better note like we have unfinished business and I still didn't really know what he meant but yeah I had a better idea after he had kissed me yes what did he do to you Megan inside the van so I did end up giving him oral sex that night and he was very very violent and I mean I was bleeding he was ripping my hair out he wouldn't let me breathe it was and it was my first ever experience like that ever I'm sorry you had to go through that and my heart breaks for you retelling the story these years later I'm sure you relive that moment dozens and dozens of times I mean what what kind of person does that to a 15 16 year old girl yeah and it definitely it haunts me sometimes but I also feel like it's something that I have repressed and I haven't really had the chance to talk about it or deal with it but for being my first experience it definitely warped my perception of you know what intimacy should be and it has followed me into adulthood definitely this happens traumatized bleeding sexually assaulted there's no other way to put it right and I also feel like my privacy was really innovated that night also I almost feel like I was stalked I know I gave him my address but I didn't you know ever think that he would just come to my house without telling me especially when I live with my parents and they could have easily caught him it's like he wasn't being careful like you just didn't care did he looking back did he seem like he was he had a feeling of entitlement like he this is the next notch on his belt you were gonna be the one that night no matter what you said or how you responded he was going to have his way yes absolutely he he definitely was set on it and was very persistent to the point where I felt like I didn't really have a choice but to give him what he wanted because he wasn't going to stop in fact actually thinking back to that night I remember telling him I have to get back inside I like my parents probably realize I'm gone at this point and he got very hostile with me very angry and was just like okay see you next time you know just being short like he was angry that I didn't give him what he wanted so that's finally when I was just like okay well I don't want any bad blood with you I don't want you to hate me he manipulated you absolutely did you tell anybody about this man um yes well I told Elizabeth actually that he kissed me that night I didn't tell anybody about you know their full extent of what happened that night but she was actually at his house when I told her that and this was you know probably I don't even know how long it was after this that I told Elizabeth but I did tell Elizabeth that he kissed me I mean she was there she asked him hey is this true did you kiss Megan and he called me and made me publicly call myself a liar in front of all of his roommates he made you get on the phone and say that you were a liar front of everybody in his house yes I don't how'd it make you feel humiliated I was completely humiliated and he knew what he was doing absolutely and it's almost like he just gets off on that he loves humiliating people let's bring in Elizabeth Faber now Elizabeth you have been listening hi thanks for being with us tonight how you doing okay thank you you're very courageous to come forward and I appreciate it you listen to what Meghan has said you know Meghan's story you went through a very similar experience with Davi vanity tell me about that and then let's talk about the phone call you got from Elizabeth that night and you were actually at Bobby Kennedy's home yeah so do you want to talk about just that night or talk about that night and then we'll talk about how you first met him I got involved in this okay so that night I was working with their merch guy at the time and I was doing like a lot of t-shirt work and just kind of helping out so I was at his house like a lot and Meghan had told me beforehand and she was in town I believe at the time and so I asked Tommy like did this happen like what's going on here like is there something I need to know about because at the time I was 16 I think so I was kind of concerned because I was like I know Meghan's 15 like this is that like real like did that really happen and he was like no there's no way that happened like she's lying like she's a liar like like I'm gonna block her and her sister and so he did block them and then I told him like that wasn't cool like you need to talk to them about it obviously if she is lying because he had to be so manipulated at the time like you need to squash that like you need to talk to her so he got on the phone with her and it was me and the merch guy at the time who were like kind of there and he kept her on speaker but told us to not talk and he basically made her say like oh that never happened I'm lying and like make like amends over the phone and like he was very reassuring that like oh we're still friends though and I think that was to kind of keep her at bay and make her not say anything again and Elizabeth what was your relationship with w vanity at the time at that time we were really close friends you know how old are you you were 16 years old yeah I was 16 and how did you come to be his merch person uh I wouldn't say that I was like a merch person I just kind of was really friendly with the people who did it but I met da Feeny when I was 12 I met him on tour I was a big fan of the music and then we talked online a lot over the years and every time we come to San Diego I would go to the show and so when I was 16 he moved to San Diego and I had just kind of like started to look mature you know and he was very mad at like oh we need to hang out like you're like the one person I know that lives here like we should hang out all the time like I'll pick you up I'll come to you like we'll hang out and he did we hung out a lot but it never was anything out of the ordinary I thought everything was normal but it never occurred to me that a 30 year old man should not be hanging out with a 16 year old girl and how did your relationship with davi progress Elizabeth I would say he always there was always like an underlying like sexual energy about it but I never picked up on it because you know I was 16 and I'm not thinking about that at the time and nothing really happened until actually my 18th birthday which is quite unusual for him so we were really good friends and he would call our like hangouts dates and stuff but I didn't think it was wrong and he would like call me beautiful and like tell me I was pretty and tell me he loved me but I didn't think it was something that you didn't say to your friend until he crossed that line and what happened on your 18th birthday so my 18th birthday everyone planned to go to LA to go to bar sinister that's been talked about I think previously surely and he had all my friends who knew him come to his house and he wanted us to like pregame and drink and smoke and then he was going to drive all of us up to LA why he had been drinking it smoking which not great and that was the plan so I went over there early to pregame and he got me alone in his room to help him with his makeup and he started like touching my chest and like saying like really like outwardly sexual things and I was like so confused because that was never the way our friendship went and then he texted me to follow him later on so we were ready to go and I followed him inside and he like pushed me down on an office chair in his room and he like forced my head into his crotch and just kind of forced me to perform oral sex with no consent there option and then he told me don't ever tell anyone what happened I'll kill you he said he said don't ever tell anyone would happen or I'll kill you yeah and I was shocked and I was like have I asked him have you been wanting to do that since you met me and he said yes of course and I said I was 12 when we met he goes yeah I know who does this a sick person someone who needs help and again you know you're a survivor here this is not your fault yeah it's completely his fault and so the night continues like at least in his behavior nothing had happened he treated me like nothing was wrong I was like I the car with all of my friends driving la like about to go to a party and I'm just like what the heck just happened in here he sexually assaulted you yeah threatened to kill you yeah then you hop in a car to head up to LA to go to bar sinister yeah and he was my ride home and so I just was like boy I have to be nice because I need him to take me home how did he exercise this psychological sexual control of her over you and so many others I I think it isn't in speaking with you know so many of the survivors you know he it's a pattern clearly here now have control like that I think for me he laid a groundwork like he made a connection with me personally made a connection with my parents so that they felt comfortable having me around and he would feed you like all these like I don't know if there were lies or not but he'd be like I love you I care about you you're my best friend he would do things for you who'd buy dinner can you take you to the movies and be like my treat and so we kind of would establish like what would seem like a normal friendship so you thought that there was nothing wrong and then he would cross a lot just like cook I want to bring you in here the HuffPost thanks for being with us tonight how are you I'm good thanks so you're excellent reporting along with Sebastian Murdoch really moved this whole investigation this story to a different level you look at it now how did this guy get away with it Nobby vanity hey Suz Torres for so long and how you know in hindsight after reporting on it after talking to so many of the survivors after hearing what you're hearing tonight how did he manipulate these these young woman what he's really he's not been brought to justice yet I mean things are certainly to happen but I mean we're talking about a 10-year history of sexual assault coercion and threats and not facing any kind secuence adversely except you know an arrest here and a questioning in in Florida I think Megan and Elizabeth really put this well he's extremely charming extremely manipulative and he is willing to put in the time that it takes to make someone feel comfortable it's to make them feel like they're friends he'll get to know people's parents and send them you know text messages video calls phone calls and really build up that trust and he also chooses his targets really carefully he picks young girls who idolizes him and what di'ja to meet him and who trusts him and look up to him and you know he just from what I've heard from these interviews just like wields this pseudo Fame as the lead singer of what on the dancefloor and I'm sure it also helps that he doesn't seem to feel any remorse time after time and you're talking about somebody who is still out there today by multiple accounts communicating with underage girls we've seen this we've seen young women come forward as recently as you know in the last couple weeks that he's continuing to communicate with young women and even trying to set up dates in spite of the Cova 19 pandemic yeah I mean I think part of it too is he has this like online portrayal of himself if you look at his Instagram account for example he just seems like this goofy need dorky guy who loves his cat and who's friendly and silly and I think that's all part of the game to him and that's all part of this master manipulation that he has been doing for so long what do you think it is that makes him act this way behave this way commit these crimes did you come across anything in your reporting that suggests anything that happened to him oh how he turned out this way or how he became such a by all accounts a monster prey on vulnerable young women I'm not sure of anything in his past might be affecting his behavior but I do know he's been getting away with it and when you have this consistent pattern of impunity why would he stop he's been investigated by the police he there's a police report confirming that he raped a teenage girl and he's still out there still at large like you know why would he stop do you think there was an attitude among some law enforcement that okay the victim wasn't willing to come forward in some cases that this was a he said she said thing it's the rock star lifestyle did he get a pass on some of these things no that was something Sebastian and I found in our reporting we spoke to a detective who investigated doggy when he was 22 and his victim was 14 and it really is a failure on the part of police you know even if you have a victim of sexual assault who maybe doesn't feel comfortable maybe doesn't want to get their Idol in trouble when it is an incident of sexual assault against a minor who does not even have the ability to consent it's out of their hands it's not up to a victim in that case whether or not Bobbi should have been arrested or whether a prosecutor should have pressed charges so the the woman I'm referring to Diana Farrell who is quoted in our story she says now too that she is really disappointed that police didn't pursue that case further back when it happened Elizabeth did you tell anybody about this back in the time and the day when it happened what Dobby did to you did you did you ever tell your parents or friends or did you ever even consider going to law enforcement Elizabeth sorry there were there you are I told my friends who didn't know him or have any contact with him at the time just so like I was kind of like kind of shocked by it and I wanted their opinion so I told them but they were like they didn't really respond to it I was like oh you should speak up I kind of just kept it quiet and what happened with the relationship between you and Davi after that night after that he tried to continue doing it there was another incident that happened when they were on tour he came home to San Diego and he told me his girlfriend and him broke up and that it was all cool that we could be together because he had me on this like this leash that we were going to be in a relationship and he loved me and he wanted to be with me eventually and that was very obviously not the case so it happened again same situation and I cut I just went along with it and then our relationship kind of changed back to the way it was when I was 16 like we were just friends and like nothing sexual would happen and I had immense feelings for him at that time like the Stockholm Syndrome was hard look like and I asked him about it was like hey like why has this kind of stopped and he was like well I mean you're laying now and you don't drink so if you were drunk something would happen but otherwise like we're just gonna stay friends and how long between the two incidents the first night when he assaulted you in the second night when there was another sexual interaction it was October is my birthday and then they came back on tour in December so two months two months and how did he treat you after that second encounter um he got kind of distant I think he kind of got what he wanted and he got a new girlfriend and so he goes through like herbs and flows of having girlfriends where he will cheat on them or he will actually be loyal so he was being loyal for once in his life and so he kind of stopped talking to me for a few months what did it do to you to know that he used you assaulted you on two occasions that said oh well I'm you know I got a girlfriend now I mean how does that make you feel that you weren't in his are a girlfriend and girlfriend material you were just there for you yeah and sexually assault oh it hurt yeah it hurt a lot and I would spend like a lot of nights like crying about it I would call my friends who knew about it and like it hurt my feelings a lot and it still hurts me how did it change you long-term how is this impacted you Elizabeth sorry I think now because that was like my first sexual experience I feel like it's harder for me to feel comfortable with men and that way because like that innocence was taken away from me and I don't have a like a healthy foreground or it so I think now to this day like I still have a hard time like having sex with men and I think I still have a hard time feeling like I can trust someone because he took my trust and betrayed it Megan let me ask you how did Bobby treat you after that night in the tour band did you hear from him again did you continue to be in contact with what happened uh yes we actually became very close and kind of touching on what Elizabeth is been saying he's just very charming and I wanted to maintain this friendship that I had with him and so we just kept in touch online and stuff and he would text me frequently we would actually he he ended up flying me out to go see him in California because he knew that I had friends out there that I would be able to stay with because he'll stay with him that I mean that's a red flag right he didn't he didn't want that and so I went out there to California he bought me a one-way ticket and I was kind of confused as to why he had only bought one and not the other and he told me that it was just like a rough time with finances at that point and that he was getting paid soon he was getting paid and I was out there and that he would be able to buy my ticket when I was out there and how long did you stay in a dress probably a week but I was with my friend most of the time I would just see him every now and then we would hang out go get dinner or something did you have an encounter with him as well yes and so that's kind of when it became a normal thing for him and I is the first time that I went out to go see yeah and how long did this continue not very long before I kind of realized what was happening I'd say wishing will span of a year definitely he didn't not talk to me at all after I turned 18 that's for sure so once he turned 18 he was done with you yes but I also had released a video about my experience with him so he cut ties with me yes tell me about that what was in the video why did you release it I really thought what did you want people to know okay so at that time he still had quite the army behind him lots of people supported him and were kind of blind to the truth and the only person who had released any statement I believe at that time was Damian formerly known as Jesse solder and obviously they had a ton of you know harassment and backlash death threats etc so I decided to just do it and take the heat because I felt if I did nothing then it would eat me alive and what did you say in the video I just talked about how he coerced me and manipulated me into performing favorite favors for him like and going going back to when I was in California at that first time he actually made me give him you know oral stats and click one of these sexual favors to get my way home like this was kind of just this ultimatum that he gave me is like you do this or I'm not buying your ticket home wait wait wait so he flies you out there one way under the ruse of not have enough money for a roundtrip ticket but he'll take care of it in a week you're out there seeing a friend you have an encounter with him physically and then he says you have to keep doing this otherwise I'm not gonna buy you a ticket home yeah and I think that conversation actually took place before the first time that's for the second time for the first time on that trip that sounds like human trafficking to me yes and that's I did kind of hear a little bit of what Blair White said on her interview with you she talked about it because my story is also in The Huffington Post arond um so yes that's that was me did you ever go to law enforcement and why why didn't you think that that was an option so something that's very I think it was kind of the trust factor that went into this he trusted a little bit then he did not trust me at all after after me calling or telling Elizabeth that he kissed me that night right his trust is broken with me he would go through my phone every time I saw him and he would check my camera will make sure I didn't have any pictures or videos of him he would go through my texts make sure I wasn't talking about being with him I mean everything social media everything so he actually took your phone to check your text to make sure you weren't communicating with Elizabeth or anybody else or had any pictures of him that would be incriminating and he would take it upon himself to delete the text that I had with him also to make sure that they were completely gone and you allowed him to do this no I mean I mean - he actually got physical I mean I had a bruise on my wrist for a long time the first time you did it and after that point I knew he was serious and that he would go to great extents to erase all the evidence were you afraid of him yes did you think he would hurt you if he didn't go along with what he said yes what do you think would have happened if you did not succumb to his sexual requests I honestly I have never really thought about that I don't think that it would have killed me but I definitely think it would have probably gotten very physically violent in what happened after you release that video same thing that happened to Damien I was being severely harassed and I lost all of my friends that I had built around this guy I mean most of my friends were online at the time and all of those friends that I had online loved him and didn't want to open their eyes to the truth because I was one of the first people to speak out about it and so yeah I lost a significant amount of people and I also was getting death threats and I had just had a baby at the time so you had you had just had a baby yeah I think death threats the backlash was violent and furious yeah what was the lesson at that time for you when it came to speaking out about this abuse um I kind of just felt like I needed to shut up and just and stay quiet about it and hide in the shadows and that's why I'm here today because I'm not doing that anymore you stayed quiet for a number of years you took part in The Huffington Post investigation you're taking part in our investigations here what do you hope comes from this I want him locked up and I want him to think about it every night before he goes to bed obviously Megan and Elizabeth there's a pattern here oh yeah he goes after young vulnerable in some cases star-struck women do you think he's he's out there still doing this today oh yeah oh yeah I don't think he will ever stop until he's put in jail or something Megan I want to go back to something you said just a few moments ago about going to authorities reporting this given the backlash from that video did that impact your thought process in terms of reporting this and seeking justice at that time and why I almost felt like if I was the one responsible for getting him in legal trouble that I would probably never live a happy life with the amount of people that were in his you know army at that time I was actually scared for my safety and like I said about having a baby they actually had brought my son into it and that's kind of my breaking point to erase my video and just not talk about it anymore because because they were threatening my one month old son when you say threatened what was being said just death threats the same death threats as me I'll come kill you and I'll kill your son too people said this yes do you know who these people were just people online fans of dobby's yeah and do you think Davi was motivating this do you think he was behind it or were fan just so rabid that they were doing this on their own definitely crazed fans insane brainwashed fans jessalyn cook what is it about dobby vanity that engenders such maniacal loyalty amongst his following i think he presents himself as really relatable he you know understands what they're going through he's their friend he's there for them he cares about them you see that kind of messaging on his social media all the time and so it you know you now see these legions of fans who idolize him and will come to his defense like after our my first article with sebastian came out you know so many of the women who came forward and spoke out on the piece were then terrorized by these teenage girls in his fan base and you know davi definitely hasn't cited that - if you listen to some of his lyrics he will go after his accusers he'll call them [ __ ] and like other terrible things and I I think they see defending him as their way of like returning their side of this friendship they have where they think they have do you think the climate has changed jessalyn in terms of both people coming forward and law enforcement now taking an interest in this in a more aggressive way I certainly hope so um you know the hope is that he will be held accountable for his actions and it has been really inspiring to see so many women come forward and share their stories after you know Sebastian when I published our first story the reason we ran a second one is because so many women reached out to us saying this happened to me too now Elizabeth and Megan you two have become friends over the years yeah and you are in constant contact this tragedy this victimization might have identity in some strange way bring together in sort of your own - woman survivors group is a saying too much um I think for me I think blood can like kind of made a community of friends that I met online and then as we've all kind of phased out of that we kind of all realize now that most of us were victims or survivors of that situation and they think it's a trauma bond like the people that lived with him at the time that were my friends and Megan and other girls that I know that this happened to like we are all bonded in that way that we experience the same trauma and we understand each other in a way that other people cannot it and what do you say to any other young woman who is communicating with him now talking about beating him infatuated with him in any way don't meet him it's not worth it like it's better to have him be mad at you for saying no and block you than to go through what it would be if you went through it Elizabeth as we sit here tonight what did Dobby vanity take away from you who he took away my innocence and he took away my whole teenage years I I mean I spent all of my years in high school in love with a 30 year old man spending all of my free time with older men and I don't think I had any of the normal experiences that a sixteen-year-old girl should have and that's all his fault Elizabeth went to dubby Vinny Megan I'm sorry Megan what did Dobby vanity take away from you also my innocence quite literally because I had no other experience before him and he was all that I knew and with him being so romantic and charming I thought it was real for quite some time before I finally realized what he was doing so I definitely still carry that with me sometimes he's altered my perception of what love is because he told me that he loved me and I believed it you know if you could feel this yeah I feel the same way like I think Megan and I have very similar experiences and feelings on the subject and yeah it's hard and I feel for anyone else who was there with us why did you think was so important both Megan and Elizabeth to come forward and tell the story publicly in this forum which is could be seen by a lot of people so I think what really happened was there was a post that I think Elizabeth made or maybe one of his merch girls at the time about I mean it was super long sentimental touchy post about how great of a man he is and how you know everybody it holds him to such a high standard and he's you know the best man ever and it kind of made me sick to read that because I knew things that other people didn't and I wasn't sleeping well at night knowing that I'm keeping something inside that is wrong and that should be spoken out to potentially help future victims is there anything Megan that will get you past this that will give you closure that will allow you to he'll probably just this talking about it and not being afraid to hide anymore because honestly his career is crashing and burning as we speak and I truly never thought I would see the day but now that that's actually happening I feel like I have a pretty solid platform to to speak and I never have felt that way Elizabeth what gives you what will give you a closure peace of mind I just think that speaking about it is something that I put off for a really long time and I think just kind of being on this is a lot of closure for me because I know that he will never try to reach out to me again and that Wallis closed and that chapter is done and what do you say Elizabeth to Diaby vanity tonight if he's listening to the show what do you want him to know he's definitely listening and he hurt me and a lot of other women in so many ways and it needs to stop and it can't continue and it's disgusting and no one should have to go through what anyone else has gone through again and what makes you think Elizabeth that he is watching this today what convinces you of that oh when I was friends with him he would watch every hateful video about him he would sit there and anytime any post or anything that was said about him negative he would text all of his friends if he like get on this and and defend me and he would send that to me all the time and I would do it and I think he's still doing that there's no way that's changed are you willing to go forward Elizabeth now and report this to authorities to cooperate in any way given the the timeframe and the potential limits and statute of limitations here are you willing to file a report to talk to authorities to talk a lot for sure yeah I I still haven't like talked to my parents about it so that would be like my first step and doing that with them would probably be the next okay and Megan what about you do you feel compelled to go to law enforcement to try the best you can to be a part of this growing group of young women who are trying to get justice yes absolutely and I definitely feel like even though I don't have any solid evidence because you would constantly erase it I think what I have to say is important and even if it's you know this slide chance in the world that what I say can help then I will in fact I've actually been in contact with now she she got me in contact with was somebody who is working on an investigation so we're talking about mal levy who is a survivor herself and who has been on this program and has become an advocate pretty much for other survivors and what do you say Megan to Dobby tonight if he's watching this thinks he is and and I don't think she's wrong so I have actually kind of been looking at the live comments it's been a little bit distracting yeah I shouldn't be doing it but I did see him in the chat and he said that never happened that's it that never happened so yes Dobby vanity is in the chat as we speak and I try to I don't always look at the comments because I need to keep my head in the game at the interview but you're sure that's Dobby as we speak in the comments now yes this was a little bit ago I believe he's banned now thankfully but he's definitely still watching so if I have anything to say to him it would be just you know for somebody who is always being preachy for somebody who's always being preachy about you know the power of the universe and the law of attraction you you think that you would realize by now that what you are doing and what you're putting out there is making its way back to you as we speak and I'm just gonna sit back in watch and do my part that's all you know he spouts all this spiritual stuff at these live streams on Instagram and and and how you know you need to be in touch and this is you know the way we think now and what's it like for you guys to see this stuff well when I was friends with him I would see him down on his phone and look up inspirational quotes and ripped them off and post them online acting like it was his preachy message when he in fact took it from someone else he doesn't believe the own things he says you know I should say that we've reached out to WV ID haters Torres to get comment on this and we've been unable to reach him I believe we had a phone number for him and he did not respond if some indication that he's reaching out as well on on the comments tonight and I should say if he does want to talk I'll I'll talk to him and he could DM me on Twitter and we'll do that which I think would be very interesting yeah I'm not he's an ample opportunity to reach out before us so this has been going on it's not going away anytime soon jessalyn quick final thoughts tonight in terms of you know all the time you've spent on different subjects and reporting and this case seems to be you know right in the me to movement along with so many others we've covered in the last couple years do you think will ultimately get just as you I hope so um you know I just say again it's been really inspiring seeing so many women be so brave and come forward especially given the harassment that's been leveled up so many other survivors you know I hope for the best in their place jessalyn thanks very much Elizabeth final thoughts tonight is there anything else you want people to know if you're talking to him it's not worth it yeah no one should have to go through that and for anyone who has any experiences like talk to Chris it's a lot of help and yeah do something about it because this can't continue megan hood final thoughts tonight is there anything else you want people to know about your experience and how you're doing today at what you want to see in terms of justice in this case so not just with dobby but with it like anybody if you are being coerced or groomed by an older man and you're underage or you know woman or whatever you're not alone and you never will be alone definitely reach out seek the help go to the authorities do what you have to do and don't stay silent because it will only hurt you in the long run all right Megan Elizabeth thank you for being courageous and brave and coming forward and telling your stories tonight and undoubtedly helping so many other young women in this case and in other cases like it jessalyn cook thanks for being with us good luck and continued good reporting at the Huff Post I appreciate your time tonight you all have a good evening and stay healthy and stay safe with all this going on in the world today I appreciate it we're going to continue reporting on the Dhabi vanity story and I should tell you and we'll put this information up both on links on the YouTube channel as well as on social media Ashleigh Lilly and mal levy we talked about earlier Ashleigh also as a survivor and has been on this show but Ashleigh and now are putting together a group of video statements from survivors and it will give you the information so that you can reach out there are also coordinating with law enforcement authorities some of whom I've actually spoken with and there is a very active investigation and a lot of interest from local and federal law enforcement I can report tonight so we will stay on top of it we have fascinating insider in the world of Dappy vanity whose it will be on next week we also have been doing some interviews on our other investigative focus on this program on DC on Greg James Jackson the YouTube psycho Brad from Washington State who seems to have gone quiet at least temporarily from YouTube at least and is now quote a quote a male model on his only fans we've been talking to people who have been on the inside of his discourse the moderators and very soon you'll be hearing the voice of oneasy on as you've never heard it before the insiders of you will have that for you very soon and we're also working on a project that I think you'll find interesting with our friend West most YouTube streamer who's had a series of interesting experiences so we'll be working on that tomorrow and more news on that later of the week but thank you very much for tuning in and giving attention to this very important topic you know I go back to the example of the Jeffrey Epstein case and how you know the Miami Herald just kept digging away and chipping away at talking to survivors and giving them a voice and giving them the courage and support and safety net to come forward to be identified and that's what we try to do here on this program so thanks again for tuning in you have a wonderful evening and we will touch base later in the week stay safe stay healthy and remember I'll be watching good

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Length: 57min 48sec (3468 seconds)

Published: Wed May 20 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/Raperofelves]

Everytime I watch one of these I think "there's no way it can be worse than the last one," and I'm always let down and disgusted.

This girl was 15, had never done anything with a guy before, and he tricked her into giving up her address, showed up at her house at 3am, lured her outside by calling her, and said "your phone keeps cutting out, go outside so you can get a better connection," and this poor young girl, who had no idea a rapist would be outside her house, was dragged into his van and assaulted in front of her childhood home, where she should have been most safe.

He literally showed up uninvited to a 15 year olds house, tricked her into coming outside, pulled her into his van, and raped her. A kid who had never had a sexual experience before. In front of her own house. Having no idea this man was going to show up.

I freaking hate this guy. I don't think I've ever wanted to see justice served so badly. I will literally celebrate his arrest.

Edit: And that was only half the interview. The other girl's story is just as disturbing. He befriended her at 13, acted like an awesome friend any teenager would dream of having, earning her trust/grooming her over the course of 5 years, only to turn around and rape her on her 18th birthday. So fucking sick.